Find out about how sailors have navigated and explored throughout history. Design your own map, learn about how mariners navigated using stars and
constellations, make a compass and get hands on with our museum handling collections.
Takes place: 1pm – 3pm
Follow our maritime trail around Streetlife Museum and explore the rich heritage of Hull. Collect treasures along the way and exchange them for riches at our trading post.
Takes place: 1pm – 3pm
Make your own hanging mobile of prehistoric sea creatures inspired by the Hull and East Riding Museum collections. From Ichthyosaurs to ammonites, what will you include?
Takes place: 1pm – 3pm
Make your own cannon inspired by Henry’s Gun on display in the Hull and East Riding Museum which was discovered in the South Blockhouse archaeological digs.
Takes place: 1pm-3pm
Make your own colourful vehicles and paper flower crowns inspired by the 1970s.
Takes place: 1pm – 3pm
Arty Bods: Summer School is an exciting set of art workshops designed for kids aged 5-11 years old.
Each workshop will be led by artist and Lauren Saunders. Together as a group, your child will get to grips with a range of art materials and techniques, and explore creativity in an art gallery setting.
Using the current exhibitions at Humber Street Gallery as inspiration, young artists will be able to develop their artistic skills from week-to-week. Or if you’re not sure, simply drop in to a session or two to see if it’s for them.
Expect lots of fun, colour and mess (and no cleaning up)!
Young artists must be accompanied by an adult, who can relax during sessions with coffee and cake from our café bar.
Activity schedule:
14 June – PAPER PLATES with Faith Foster
Do you love a roast dinner? Are picnics more your thing?
Let’s chat about our favourite foods together and make a plate collage. We’ll be using paper and drawings to make our food creations.
21 June – BANANARCHY BODS! with Lauren Saunders
Let’s go bananas! We’ll spend the morning exploring the gallery and using paper to make individual artworks in response to Pippa Hale’s colourful and playful new exhibition.
28 June – FRUITY BUNTING with Lauren Saunders
Back by popular request, we’re doing momigami again… But this time we’ll be making colourful, fruity bunting to brighten up our homes and welcome in the summer!
5 July – BERRY SILLY MONSTERS with Lauren Saunders
Come and help make a community of weird and wonderful fruit-monster puppets and costumes as we use a range of paper cutting, drawing and fastening techniques.
12 July – ARTY BODS FRUIT MARKET with Lauren Saunders
Roll up, roll up! Come buy yer snoozleberries and glimmerpeaches ‘ere! Five gloopafruits for only a pound! Let’s create a collaborative and bustling fruit market scene, featuring faraway fruit, signs, price tags and country origin flags through collage, drawing and installation.
19 July – CHILDREN’S CHOICE with Lauren Saunders
We’ll be using this last week in the block to revisit or share our own paper-based techniques with others, and explore some of the ideas suggested by Arty Bods participants in previous weeks.
Please purchase one ticket per child attending.
Immerse yourself into all the natural warm colours of Autumn using mixed-media collage, inks, charcoal and paint.
You will be greeted with a wonderful array of pumpkins, candles and autumn cuttings collected from the grounds of Burton Constable all created into a beautiful still life for you to work with for the day. Starting with loose sketches and finding your composition encouraged by demonstrations by Gail in finding ways of seeing and interpretation.
Event Details
Saturday 18th October 2025 10am to 4pm
A break for lunch at 12pm
The Carriage House
All materials will be provided
Tea and Coffee throughout the day
The Stables Kitchen will be open if you wish to purchase your lunch, alternatively you can bring a packed lunch with you
Immerse yourself into watercolour and ink to feel the lightness of summer. The workshop begins with a brief tutorial on everything watercolour!
With the landscape, flora and fauna of the Burton Constable Hall at your fingertips for inspiration, a session of sketching will follow; weather permitting, this will take place in the grounds. Gail will be offering plenty of demonstrations to encourage you all the way to be as experimental as you can be. After a break for lunch, time will be spent transforming your compositions into colour! A focus on watercolours and inks with more demonstrations at hand for you to fully embrace this exciting medium in a relaxed way.
Event Details
Saturday 5th July 2025 10am to 4pm
A break for lunch at 12pm.
The Carriage House
All materials will be provided
Tea and Coffee throughout the day
The Stables Kitchen will be open if you wish to purchase your lunch, alternatively you can bring a packed lunch with you.
Join us to make your own mini creatures from clay in this fun art activity inspired by the Microworld exhibition at Ferens Art Gallery.
Takes place: 1-3pm
Takes place: 10-12noon
Make your own mini habitat in this fun family craft activity inspired by the Microworld exhibition at Ferens Art Gallery.
What creatures will live there? What plants will grow? Let your imagination run wild.
Takes place: 1-3pm
Takes place: 1-3pm
Takes place: 1-3pm
Takes place: 10am-12noon
Join us to make your own bumble bee and flower themed crafts in this fun family activity session inspired by the beautiful Museums Quarter Gardens.
Takes place: 1pm-3pm
Join us to make your own mini Viking longboat in this fun family craft activity, or why not design your own boat for the future?
Takes place: 1pm-3pm
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